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Darrera modificació: 2022-02-02
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Lehmhaus, Lennart (ed.), Defining Jewish Medicine: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz (Episteme in Bewegung: Beiträge zur einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte, 8), 2021, 382 pp.
- Resum
- The present volume brings together a group of scholars from diverse fields in Jewish studies who deal with Jewish medical knowledge from ancient to medieval times, applying a comparative approach to the subject. Based on a variety of methodological and theoretical concepts, they address strategies of interaction with earlier Jewish traditions and the deep embeddedness in other, often religiously shaped discourses (exegesis, ethics, Talmudic law and lore). Special attention is paid to the complex interplay between literary forms and the knowledge conveyed. Diachronic approaches also explore the complex ways of transmission, transfer, rejection, modification and invention of medical knowledge. Possible contexts and points of contacts can be found in medical thinking and practices in surrounding cultures (Ancient Near East, Graeco-Roman, Byzantine, Persian-Iranian, Syriac and medieval Western Christianity, early Islamic). Such a twofold perspective allows for assessing particularities of Jewish medical discourses within Jewish cultural history and their trans-cultural interaction with other medical traditions. Moreover, these studies may serve as a starting point to further inquiries into the role of these exchanges and entanglements, not only within a broader history of medicine, science and knowledge, but also for the history of cultures and religions at large.
Contents:
-- Part 1: Introduction, History of Scholarship, and Bibliography
* Lehmhaus, Lennart / Defining or Defying Jewish Medicine?—Old Problems and New Questions · 3
* Lehmhaus, Lennart / The Academic Quest for “Jewish Medicine”—a Survey of the Field · 27
* Lehmhaus, Lennart / Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions: Selected Bibliography · 57
-- Part 2: Ancient Jewish Medical Discourses in Comparative Perspective
* Dal Bo, Federico / A Foetus Shaped Like a Sandal: Birth Anomalies in Talmudic Tractate Niddah · 93
* Kiperwasser, Reuven / The Cure of Amnesia and Ars Memoria in Rabbinic Texts · 119
* Collins, Kenneth / The Fever that Nourishes: Early Rabbinic Concepts on the Purpose of Fever · 143
* Recht, Aviad / The Rabbinic Health Regimen: A Greek Genre Adapted by the Sages · 157
-- Part 3: Historicity, Authority and Legitimacy of Medical Knowledge: Tradition, Transfer and Cultural Negotiations
* Kottek, Samuel / The Physician in Bible and Talmud—Between the Lord and the Ailing · 179
* Meacham, Tirzah / Physicians' Expertise and Halakha: On Whom Did the Sages Rely? · 193
* Shinnar, Shulamit / The Experiments of Cleopatra: Foreign, Gendered, and Empirical Knowledge in the Babylonian Talmud · 215
* Dvorjetski, Estēe / Public Health in Jerusalem According to the Talmudic Literature: Reality or Vision? · 245
-- Part 4: Jewish Medical Episteme Around the Mediterranean in the Medieval Period
* Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit / Exploring Eurasian Transmissions of Medical Knowledge—Cues from the Hebrew Book of Asaf · 295
* Visi, Tamás / The Book of Asaf and Shabatai Donolo's Hebrew Paraphrase
of Hippocrates' Aphorisms · 313
* Langermann (2021), "Nu'mān al-Isrā'īlī and his ..." · 337
* Caballero Navas (2021), "The genesis of medieval Hebrew ..." · 349
-- General Index (Names and Subjects) · 375
-- Notes on Contributors · 379
- Matèries
- Medicina
Jueus
Història de la medicina
Recepció
- URL
- https://www.sfb-episteme.de/Listen_Read_Watch/Publi ...
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